It's a challenge to find a contract that meets both what Tom's looking for and what clubs need for their salary-cap situations, I think they want the player. I don't think they'd regret it.
Quotes about salary-cap (13 Quotes)
The salary-cap system makes you make choices, and some of them are not very popular choices. But because the money is so big, the choices have big consequences if they don't work out. It has a trickle-down effect on the rest of your football team.
They have a lot of money sunk into the line and in Marcus. It's tough. The salary-cap thing squeezes all of us. They've got two reasonably priced quarterbacks.
It's too bad that decision had to be made ... I always thought he would retire a Red Wing. I think we will be seeing more of this kind of movement now with the salary-cap system.
The last capped-year rules that are in place are much different to the rules we've operated with to date. They capture a lot of the tricks of the trade that otherwise would allow you to extend salary-cap dollars. Labor peace has been great for us in the National Football League. It has made life easier, and I think it's been good for the players.
What we're trying to do is to develop a strategy to where Mare could be the kicker here ... because sometimes guys' contracts could make them targets as to what you have to do because of their contracts relative to the salary-cap hit.
Our contention has been it's not a competition when you pay one guy 40-something million dollars. In this salary-cap era, you start the guy you paid that to at least for a year or two, right This is a farce that there's going to be competition.
I won't ever get used to having to tell guys like Shannon Sharpe, Rob Burnett and Rod Woodson that, even though I know you can still play, still contribute, we have to release you because of the salary-cap issues,
The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, ... But we're certainly looking forward to the future.
Nobody wants to kill this golden goose. I don't like the salary-cap system. There's nothing I like about it except that it's a system that both sides have been able to agree upon. But that has meant that football's been able to concentrate its energies and efforts at the union and management level on developing new revenue sources and promoting the brand with the general public.
I was told that if a (labor) deal would have been reached that they would have picked up my option on Friday, but since the deal wasn't reached, the salary-cap figure won't go up as they'd hoped. So that's what happens.
It's made the (GM) job tougher and more unpopular. Because the easier way to go is to sign the popular veteran that's really a good fit in your marketplace, but not a good fit in your salary-cap management. In my mind you make at least three or four of those decisions on a yearly basis now. You used to have one of those, at most, every two or three years.
With what you pay a top-five pick, you can't afford to miss on him, not just from a talent standpoint, but from a salary-cap standpoint.